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NetScience
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Reader in Applied Mathematics at Queen Mary University working on Network Science, Data Science, and digital Epidemiology. Website: www.nicolaperra.com
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 57m
Concise network models of memory dynamics reveal explainable patterns in path data | Science Advances www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Concise network models of memory dynamics reveal explainable patterns in path data
Concise network models interpolating between Markov orders balance simplicity and quality of fit to reveal patterns in path data.
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 59m
Indirect Influence on Network Diffusion arxiv.org/abs/2505.05931
Indirect Influence on Network Diffusion
Models of network diffusion typically rely on the Laplacian matrix, capturing interactions via direct connections. Beyond direct interactions, information in many systems can also flow via indirect pa...
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 2d
Superspreading and the evolution of virulence journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Superspreading and the evolution of virulence
Author summary The impact of infectious disease can vary from individual to individual. Superspreader events, where a few individuals cause a high proportion of infections, are critical to the spread ...
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 2d
Efficient and accurate search in petabase-scale sequence repositories www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Efficient and accurate search in petabase-scale sequence repositories - Nature
MetaGraph enables scalable indexing of large sets of DNA, RNA or protein sequences using annotated de Bruijn graphs.
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 2d
Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Age and gender distortion in online media and large language models - Nature
Stereotypes of age-related gender bias are socially distorted, as evidenced by the age gap in the representations of women and men across various media and algorithms, despite no systematic age differences in the workforce.
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 2d
Emergent Directedness in Social Contagion arxiv.org/abs/2510.06012
Emergent Directedness in Social Contagion
An enduring challenge in contagion theory is that the pathways contagions follow through social networks exhibit emergent complexities that are difficult to predict using network structure. Here, we a...
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 2d
Collective dynamics on higher-order networks arxiv.org/abs/2510.05253
Collective dynamics on higher-order networks
Higher-order interactions that nonlinearly couple more than two nodes are ubiquitous in networked systems. Here we provide an overview of the rapidly growing field of dynamical systems with higher-ord...
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 2d
Deep Generative Model for Human Mobility Behavior arxiv.org/abs/2510.06473
Deep Generative Model for Human Mobility Behavior
Understanding and modeling human mobility is central to challenges in transport planning, sustainable urban design, and public health. Despite decades of effort, simulating individual mobility remains...
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 6d
Understanding the high-order network plasticity mechanisms of ultrasound neuromodulation journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Understanding the high-order network plasticity mechanisms of ultrasound neuromodulation
Author summary Transcranial ultrasound stimulation (TUS) offers a non-invasive approach to modulating brain activity, holding promise for treating psychiatric and neurological disorders. Despite its p...
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 6d
Physical partisan proximity outweighs online ties in predicting US voting outcomes arxiv.org/abs/2407.12146
Physical partisan proximity outweighs online ties in predicting US voting outcomes
Affective polarization and increasing social divisions affect social mixing and the spread of information across online and physical spaces, reinforcing social and electoral cleavages and influencing ...
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 6d
Modeling the spatial growth of cities arxiv.org/abs/2510.03045
Modeling the spatial growth of cities
The growth of cities has traditionally been studied from a population perspective, while urban sprawl - its spatial growth - has often been approached qualitatively. However, characterizing and modeli...
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 6d
A computational framework for quantifying route diversification in road networks arxiv.org/abs/2510.02582
A computational framework for quantifying route diversification in road networks
The structure of road networks impacts various urban dynamics, from traffic congestion to environmental sustainability and access to essential services. Recent studies reveal that most roads are under...
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 8d
A Bayesian model for repeated cross-sectional epidemic prevalence survey data journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
A Bayesian model for repeated cross-sectional epidemic prevalence survey data
Author summary Understanding how infections spread in a population is crucial during an epidemic, and large-scale surveys that test people for current infection can provide valuable insights. These su...
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 8d
Improving policy design and epidemic response using integrated models of economic choice and disease dynamics with behavioral feedback journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
Improving policy design and epidemic response using integrated models of economic choice and disease dynamics with behavioral feedback
Author summary Models help researchers and policymakers predict how infections spread and compare control strategies. However, current models neglect how behavioral choices (like social distancing or ...
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 8d
Multi-Scale Node Embeddings for Graph Modeling and Generation arxiv.org/abs/2412.04354
Multi-Scale Node Embeddings for Graph Modeling and Generation
Lying at the interface between Network Science and Machine Learning, node embedding algorithms take a graph as input and encode its structure onto output vectors that represent nodes in an abstract ge...
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 8d
Framing Unionization on Facebook: Communication around Representation Elections in the United States arxiv.org/abs/2510.01757
Framing Unionization on Facebook: Communication around Representation Elections in the United States
Digital media have become central to how labor unions communicate, organize, and sustain collective action. Yet little is known about how unions' online discourse relates to concrete outcomes such as ...
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 10d
Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires | Science www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Climate-linked escalation of societally disastrous wildfires
Climate change and land mismanagement are creating increasingly fire-prone built and natural environments. However, despite worsening fire seasons, evidence is lacking globally for trends in socially ...
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 10d
From reductionism to realism: Holistic mathematical modelling for complex biological systems arxiv.org/abs/2503.20511
From reductionism to realism: Holistic mathematical modelling for complex biological systems
At its core, the physics paradigm adopts a reductionist approach, aiming to understand fundamental phenomena by decomposing them into simpler, elementary processes. While this strategy has been tremen...
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 10d
Symmetry breaking in collective decision-making through higher-order interactions arxiv.org/abs/2510.00853
Symmetry breaking in collective decision-making through higher-order interactions
Collective decision-making is a widespread phenomenon in both biological and artificial systems, where individuals reach a consensus through social interactions. While traditional models of opinion dy...
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 10d
Sampling the space of solutions of an artificial neural network link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/...
Sampling the space of solutions of an artificial neural network
The weight space of an artificial neural network can be systematically explored using tools from statistical mechanics. We employ a combination of a hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm which performs long ex...
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 11d
Latest out: Controlling the spread of deception-based cyber-threats on time-varying networks. Great collaboration with @ngozzi.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2510.00731
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 12d
Network inference via process motifs for lagged correlation in linear stochastic processes arxiv.org/abs/2208.08871
Network inference via process motifs for lagged correlation in linear stochastic processes
A major challenge for causal inference from time-series data is the trade-off between computational feasibility and accuracy. Motivated by process motifs for lagged covariance in an autoregressive mod...
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 12d
Higher-order shortest paths in hypergraphs arxiv.org/abs/2502.03020
Higher-order shortest paths in hypergraphs
One of the defining features of complex networks is the connectivity properties that we observe emerging from local interactions. Recently, hypergraphs have emerged as a versatile tool to model networ...
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 12d
Compact 15-minute cities are greener arxiv.org/abs/2409.01817
Compact 15-minute cities are greener
The 15-minute city concept, which advocates for cities where essential services are accessible within a 15-minute walk or bike ride, has gained significant attention in recent years. However, despite ...
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NetScience @netscience.bsky.social · 12d
How LLMs Learn to Reason: A Complex Network Perspective arxiv.org/abs/2509.23629
How LLMs Learn to Reason: A Complex Network Perspective
Training large language models with Reinforcement Learning from Verifiable Rewards (RLVR) exhibits a set of distinctive and puzzling behaviors that remain poorly understood, including a two-stage lear...
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